"We are not the first Who with best meaning have incurred the worst." A King Lear, I. 3. FOND and futile quality, that "meaning well: " It works more mischief than the tongue can tell. March 30. "Daffodils That come before the swallow dares and take The winds of March with beauty." Winter's Tale, IV. 3. HE winds of March treat them unkindly, THE Tossing their yellow top-knots to and fro; We gaze upon them, yet unseeing, blindly, Thinking too sadly of long years ago, When not alone we wandered through the wood And felt with her this world was very good. March 31. "Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep. ' AS 2 Henry VI. III. I. S o'er the surface of a placid lake So, free from toil and tease, As 'fore a gentle breeze, With mutual friendly give and take We hold discourse upon High topics at our ease; We shun the rocks of sharp insistance, A April 1. "What's in a name? that which we call a ros Romeo and Juliet, II. 2. NAME'S the thing, the only thing required, No matter how or when or why acquired, Whether for speech in peace or deeds in war, For preaching here at home or voyaging afar. For painting, fiddling, dancing, acting, rowing, Or angry strife 'midst friendly people sowing, A name's the thing, the only thing. A name Brings highest honours, greatest wealth and fame, "Direct not him whose way himself will choose: 'Tis breath thou lack'st and that breath wilt thou lose." Richard II. II. 1. ET us be just and say that man or maid LET us say man May to themselves be justified. They act from motives that none else can know, They see or think they see the way to go, And so they're satisfied. If in the future their mistake is seen, Theirs the regret for what they might have been By time intensified. April 3. "Experience is by industry achieved, WE Two Gentlemen of Verona, I. 3. E think, we study, and we form conclusionsThat's knowledge, or we deem it such; Sometimes it lands us amidst dire confusions Experience do we term it then and prize it much. "Ay, sir, to be honest as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand." THE Hamlet, II. 2. HE poor excuse of an ill-balanced mind, What are to me the opinions of my kind The way is plain before me as I go, Traced by my Master's hand: "Do to the rest as you would they should do ;" Thereon I take my stand. April 5. "I well believe Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know, 1 Henry IV. II. 3. A LTHOUGH he know not, yet he still may wonder, Shrewdly suspect and doubt; Invent indeed, suggest, nay sometimes blunder On truth or thereabout. |